From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 00:02:01 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 497 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Tuesday 26 November 2002 Number 497 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Re: [os2genau] BandLink CD's : Gavin Miller" 2 Re: [os2genau] BandLink CD's : Gavin Miller" 3 Re: [os2genau] [ot] BandLink CD's : John Angelico" 4 Re: [os2genau] BandLink CD's : Voytek Eymont 5 Re: [os2genau] BandLink CD's : Gavin Miller" 6 [os2genau] Netscrape e-mail fonts : Ed Durrant 7 Re: [os2genau] BandLink CD's : David Forrester" **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 08:38:21 +1000 (EST) From: "Gavin Miller" Subject: Re: [os2genau] BandLink CD's Hi Ian, In your original post I think you said the CD worked fine in your car CD player, is that right? Well yesterday a mate of mine bought the new Pearl Jam CD and it had a hard time playing in his car system. He thought about returning the CD but instead decided to try and extract the audio tracks and burn them. Do you think that might work? Cheers G ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 10:01:40 +1000 (EST) From: "Gavin Miller" Subject: Re: [os2genau] BandLink CD's Hi Ian. Hi All, Since I'm now in the music industry (musician) and would not like customers returning any of my CD's to the store, I did a bit of research today. Bandlink CD's don't have much to do with Palladium at all. That won't come into play until 2004. I can't say about DRM for sure, but I don't think they are related to Bandlink CD's. There is a company that produces these cd's. They have a pattent pending on the Bandlink technology. It seems to me that it's a problem with the way they handle mixed media cd's rather than any Microsoft missmanged features. I sent an e-mail to tech support informing them of how many devices outside the computer environment are not reading Bandlink CD's. I don't have a response yet. If you guys are interested, the website is : http://www.bandlink dot com/blink/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 23:36:23 +1100 (EDT) From: "John Angelico" Subject: Re: [os2genau] [ot] BandLink CD's On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 22:55:41 +0000, Michael Taylor wrote: Hey guys. I don't go for a lot of this stuff but it looks like the titles are a send-up. >Ian Manners wrote: >> Anyone have the original studio recording of Hawkwinds >> "Masters of The Universe" ? Hmm, Dr Who theme or something? > >This is available on CD (I saw it today at Impact Records in Civic, Canberra). >Is there something wrong with the remastered CD version? > >Just interested as I have picked up the following Hawkwind CDs: >Doremi Fasol latido Play on words of the sol-fa scale (Sound of Music anyone?) >The hall of the mountain grill Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite: In the Hall of The Mountain King >In search of space Lost in Space? >Live Chronicles Lost me there... Best regards John Angelico OS/2 SIG talldad at melbpc dot org dot au or talldad at kepl dot com dot au -------------------------------------------- PMTagline v1.50 - Copyright, 1996-1997, Stephen Berg and John Angelico .... Dr. Presume? Dr. Livingstone I. Presume? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 4 ==========================** Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 13:21:08 From: Voytek Eymont Subject: Re: [os2genau] BandLink CD's ** Reply to note from "Ian Manners" Mon, 25 Nov 2002 23:41:18 +1100 (EDT) > in regards to the original problem, I returned the CD and > was given a refund, they dont seem to care that I couldnt > play it. I hope you 'll complain to Prof. Fels at ACCC Voytek Eymont SBT Information Systems Pty Ltd http://www.sbt dot net dot au/links/ phone +61-2 9310-1144 fax +61-2 9310-1118 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 5 ==========================** Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 14:30:00 +1000 (EST) From: "Gavin Miller" Subject: Re: [os2genau] BandLink CD's Hi All, Has anyone had this problem before with other enhanced cd's? I just tested a Sting CD and OS/2 reported the disc was not formatted correctly. I'll try it with Linux next and see what happens; but this disc has nothing to do with Bandlink, DRM, or Palladium. Must have a look at the enhanced CD standards. Cheers G ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 6 ==========================** Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 19:32:53 +1100 From: Ed Durrant Subject: [os2genau] Netscrape e-mail fonts GRRRR !!! Why oh Why does Netscape mail switch to an overlapping bold font when I want to create a new message ? Replies are OK. This is the first e-mail in several weeks, where I am actually able to READ what I am typing ! I don't know what I changed and suspect whatever it was it'll probably change back. Has anyone else had this problem and how do you fix it ?? Cheers/2 Ed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 7 ==========================** Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 23:46:31 +1100 (EDT) From: "David Forrester" Subject: Re: [os2genau] BandLink CD's On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 14:30:00 +1000 (EST), Gavin Miller wrote: >Hi All, > >Has anyone had this problem before with other enhanced cd's? I just tested a Sting CD >and OS/2 reported the disc was not formatted correctly. I'll try it with Linux next and see >what happens; but this disc has nothing to do with Bandlink, DRM, or Palladium. Must >have a look at the enhanced CD standards. > I don't know if this is the problem you are seeing, but, apparently one of the problem for the protected CDs is that they don't work on CD drives that have any burner technology in them. And apparently a lot of CD drives, DVD players do have burner technology in them. Of course, I can't find the link I saw this at. It might have been an article on The Register. There is a list of CDs affected at http://www.fatchucks dot com/z3.cd.html. The site calls them "Corrupt CDs". -- David Forrester davidfor at internode.on dot net http://www.os2world dot com/djfos2/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------